Tuebrook
Tuebrook is an area of inner-city
Liverpool,
England.It includes
Newsham Park and the Victorian, Grade I
listed building St John's Church. It is part of the Parliamentary Constituency of
Liverpool West Derby. Tuebrook has a Police Station but lacks any secondary schools. An interesting characteristic of the main shopping street is that all shops are on one side of the street only. This is largely due to extensive demolition during upgrading of the main road.
The area is bisected by West Derby Road, an east/west arterial route out of Liverpool City Centre. Tuebrook also has a railway line which runs north/south from Tuebrook sidings near
Edge Hill to
Kirkdale in the north. The bridge, carrying the
Canada Dock Branch over West Derby Road, used to accommodate
Tuebrook railway station before
1948.
The origin of the name may be
Tew Brook, which was a tributary of the
Alt. The Brook itself is now almost entirely piped or culverted, with the last exposed section at the back of a disused cinema.
However, some locals pronounce it
Tawbrook, suggesting that the 'Tue' is misleading.
The area is politically interesting, as it consistently elects
Liberal (as opposed to
Liberal Democrat) Councillors to
Liverpool City Council. Indeed, at recent elections, the Tuebrook Liberals have enjoyed the largest majorities of any councillors on
Liverpool City Council.
The current councillors for
Tuebrook and Stoneycroft (Tuebrook until 2004) are Steve Radford, Chris Lenton and Hazel Williams. Radford's personal popularity enabled him to finish second in the 2001 General Election for Liverpool West Derby, coming ahead of both
Conservative and
Liberal Democrat candidates. In the
General Election of 2005, this popularity was not enough to keep him in second place however and he slipped back down to third, depriving his Liberal Party of its only 2nd place showing in the UK.
Tubrook police station is currently running at less than 30% of the manpower it ran at in 1995.
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WARD PROFILE Tuebrook & Stoneycroft
